Question

What is the shape of the side faces of the pyramid?
(a) Triangles
(b) Squares
(c) Polygons
(d) Trapezium

Answer 1

Hint: First we look at what pyramid is, what it means and then we try to draw its diagram and look at that to figure out what are different shapes it contains. After that we will look at the side faces of the figure and look at what shape it represents.

Complete step-by-step answer:
Let’s start our solution by first looking at what pyramid is,
A pyramid is a structure whose outer surfaces are triangular and converge to a single step at the top, making the shape roughly a pyramid in the geometric sense. The base of a pyramid can be trilateral, quadrilateral, or of any polygon shape. As such, a pyramid has at least three outer triangular surfaces. The square pyramid, with a square base and four triangular outer surfaces, is a common version.
Now let’s look at figure of pyramid,

Now in this figure we can see that the base of the pyramid is a square and the side faces are triangles.
Hence, the correct answer is triangles which is option (a).

Note: There are many types of pyramid, here the figure that we have drawn of the base of the pyramid is square but the base can be any quadrilateral but even then also the side faces will still be triangles.